AGONY (ἀγωνία, G75). A word found in canonical Scripture only in Luke 22:44, where it is used to describe the Lord’s agony in the Garden of Gethsemane. It is a transliteration of the Gr. agōnía, which described the exhausting struggles and sufferings of athletes and gladiators in Gr. and Rom. amphitheaters. It is equivalent to “sorrowful and troubled” in Matthew 26:37 and “greatly distressed and troubled” in Mark 14:33. The word occurs also in 2 Maccabees 3:14, 16, 21 KJV to describe the anguish of the Jews when Heliodorus tried to despoil the Temple treasury.